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The Day My Mother Changed Her Name and Other Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
William Kaufman
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Description for The Day My Mother Changed Her Name and Other Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
Hardcover. Includes semi-autobiographical stories subtly layer the specifics of the Jewish experience with universal dilemmas of childhood, growing up, and old age. Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature. Num Pages: 186 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
William D. Kaufman grew up on his mother's kugel and his father's boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned how to translate his colorful childhood into tales of his own, regaling audiences of family, friends, and eventually his retirement community with periodic public readings. Now, at the age of 93, Kaufman makes his stories, filled with a sharp wit and telling detail, available to a wider audience for the first time.In the title story a young Jewish boy is shamed by a narrow-minded teacher who forces him to ... Read more
William D. Kaufman grew up on his mother's kugel and his father's boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned how to translate his colorful childhood into tales of his own, regaling audiences of family, friends, and eventually his retirement community with periodic public readings. Now, at the age of 93, Kaufman makes his stories, filled with a sharp wit and telling detail, available to a wider audience for the first time.In the title story a young Jewish boy is shamed by a narrow-minded teacher who forces him to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Library of Modern Jewish Literature
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609322
SKU
V9780815609322
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Ref
99-76
About William Kaufman
William D. Kaufman is retired from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he worked as a professional fundraiser for more than thirty years. His short stories have been published in the Forward, Moment, World War II Chronicles, and Columbia Magazine.
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